Reclaim the Moment: Seven Strategies to Build a Better Now - Hardcover

by Greg Bennick (Author)

An inspiring new exploration of how to maximize your life, your work, and your productivity

In Reclaim the Moment: Seven Strategies to Build A Better Now, internationally recognized speaker and author Greg Bennick delivers a practical and inspiring take on improving focus and enhancing peak performance for individuals and teams. The approach is fun and energetic, offering fresh ideas for generating authentic motivation. In the book, you'll find hands-on advice on how to revitalize and energize both yourself and your team using the author's unique combination of seven time-tested, and thoroughly researched, principles.

From the alluring idea to "Keep Your Eyes on the Knife" as a reminder about the importance of focus, to a call to "Leap Into the Dark" as a guide to explore creative leadership and explore new ideas, to an invitation on "Start a Reverberation Effect(TM)" as a means of amplifying your vision, the book offers solid approaches for peak performance. You'll discover how to strengthen teams, lead with direction, and to escape pessimism and self-doubt as you and the people around you learn to Build a Better Now.

You'll also find:

• Personal and true stories drawn from the author's remarkable life and career
• Evidence-backed insights taken from contemporary sociology, cultural anthropology, and futurist literature
• Strategies to encourage the taking of joyful risks and increasing the amount of laughter and happiness in your life and the lives of the people you encounter

Perfect for executives, managers, directors, and other business leaders, Reclaim The Moment is also a must-read resource for anyone seeking to build genuine inspiration, productivity, and connection in themselves and in the teams they work with.

Front Jacket

In Reclaim the Moment: 7 Strategies to Build a Better Now, internationally recognized speaker and philanthropist Greg Bennick delivers a powerful call to action for shifting perspectives and taking back focus to create the life you want.

This is an empowering invitation for returning to center and resisting the illusions and distractions of the world. Part business strategy, part personal roadmap, in this book you'll learn to resist pessimism by believing in the possibility of kindness. You will find methods to keep your eyes on your most mission-critical priority. You will see how cultivating a revolutionary mindset helps you overcome the fear of defeat. You'll discover how taking risks, engaging others with laughter, and developing relationships lead you to reverberate with new intention.

A world traveler and social theorist, Bennick brings you on a journey to explore seven strategies that will shift your approach to work and leadership, and elevate your perspective on your potential in the present moment. Drawing from concepts in psychology, business theory, and sociology, and honed through decades of firsthand experience, Bennick's strategies help you build efficiency, enhance performance, and ultimately be a driver for organizational success. When you see people around you in a new light, as empowered teammates who matter, rather than discardable adversaries, a world of potential awaits.

You'll learn to laugh and take joyous risks in conjunction with others in order to build stronger bonds with the people with whom you share work time, play time, and productivity time. When people matter, everyone wins. Reclaim the Moment is a clarion call to organizational and team leaders for a renewed focus on humanity and ambition. The book revitalizes and energizes. Each strategy is informed by personal and experiential stories from Bennick's remarkable life and supported by the research of sociologists, cultural anthropologists, academics, and other subject-matter experts.

Perfect for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders hoping to inspire the next generation of team members to achieve. Perfect for people who want to be more engaged. Perfect for this present era, Reclaim the Moment is a recipe for authentic focus and powerful connection in a desperate time when what we need most is reconnection and genuine empowerment.

Back Jacket

How can you regain your focus when you've been thrown off track by the world? In Reclaim the Moment: 7 Strategies to Build a Better Now, Greg Bennick offers strategies for juggling a world of distractions to enhance individual performance and drive organizational success.

Build stronger teams - Develop compassionate leadership
Explore creativity - Strengthen communication
Inspire collaboration

PRAISE FOR RECLAIM THE MOMENT

"A practical guide to getting your 'now' back on track, while staying true to yourself. My favorite chapters dealt with creativity and cultivating a revolutionary mindset, but all seven key strategies provide significant value."
--Adam Cheyer, co-founder of Siri

"This book is a nonstop life lesson in the business of being human. Greg has a philosopher's mind and writes with punk rock energy. Every chapter inspires reflection, inspiration, and action."
--Andy Hurley, Fall Out Boy

"Greg takes big concepts and makes them fun and totally accessible. This book is full of important ideas mixed with great storytelling."
--Jason Silva, storyteller, National Geographic's Brain Games

"Reclaim the Moment is packed with stirring insights that make inspiration actionable."
--E.J. Bastien, Senior Director of Discovery Programs, Microsoft

"Greg gives you seven strategies but I'm just giving you one: get his book! He's creative, insightful, and refreshingly honest. You're welcome."
--Larry Wilmore, TV writer/producer